Sea Island to close Drayton Street branch

Sea Island Bank will close its downtown Savannah branch as part of its parent company's "efficiency and growth" plans announced Monday. Synovus, the Columbus-based regional banking conglomerate that owns Sea Island and 31 other banking institutions in the Southeast, will close 39 of its 322 branches and cut 850 jobs to save approximately $100 million in expenses. Sea Island Bank's downtown ...